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It is that time of the year again so without further ado; Merry Xmas and a
happy New Year to you and your family when it comes!

2018 has been a difficult year for many people, Brexit is
nearly here and the opposition to it are desperate to stop us leaving the EU.

If they are successful, politics and trust in UK democracy will be broken between
the politicians and people in a way not seen before in this country. We could end up seeing a version of the ‘yellow vest’
protests here and we might even see the formation of new political parties in the UK.

2019 is gearing to be an interesting year.

One thing is certain, the winds of change are blowing, and
maybe the wind will become a storm, not just in the UK
and Scotland but
right across Europe.

The problem with politics or challenge is that when one
fight ends, you get plunged into another, either in big politics or small
politics. The fight never ends because you must always fight against others who
are only interested in their self interest.

I would like to thank all the people who took the
opportunity to drop by the blog to read and comment on the stories posted.

I would also like to thank those who read my stories and decided to post them
elsewhere and then linked it to my blog, which means I must be doing something
right.

I would also like to thank the BBC in London for dropping by numerous this
year, I do commentating on TV, hint, hint hint.

And I wanted to thank the print press who also keep rolling
by to see the George Laird view on the world, especially the newsquest mob.

All in all, it was a good year blogging; a year of angry people who really don’t
know what they are fighting against concerning Brexit.

One theme I look at time and time again is people who made
it to the top who end up by their own hand disgracing themselves by their own
stupidity.

She studied law at the University
of Hertfordshire and then
attended the University
of Law.

The Labour Party has suspended her and they think she should
resign as an MP, in reality they couldn’t have stood by her after what she has
done, especially when you consider her status as an MP for the Party.

I wanted to comment on her story in my final post of the
year to show two things, one political parties look favourably on people like Fiona
Onasanya as candidate material because she has done law, and also because of
her minority background, they gerrymander their parties to look inclusive, well
look how that turned out in this case. In politics, you have to play it
straight as I have said many times on this blog, when you don’t the fall from
grace can be severe.

Finally, see you all next year; the battle for truth will be starting early as usual
and I will do my very best to show you the good, the bad and the ugly side of
politics, because there is a lack of people willing to stand up and speak out.

Have a wonderful Xmas and new year, don’t drink and drive, enjoy the
holidays with friends and family and stay safe.

It is nearly Xmas, a time of goodwill to all men and furry
animals, a time to reflect and eat turkey, roast potatoes and sprouts. Xmas is
a busy time, so any piece of joy must be welcomed and received when it pops up.

Former SNP councillor Julie McAnulty has just received
some Xmas joy to the tune of 40 ‘large’, that’s £40,000. Julie McAnulty received
this cash because her life was destroyed by a malicious claim of racism during
“toxic” party infighting in the SNP. Smearing in the SNP is nothing knew, I was
a victim of that myself, far from being protected Julie McAnulty was abandoned
by the party’s senior leadership and SNP HQ run by Peter Murrell, Nicola
Sturgeon’s husband.

Now that Julie McAnulty has fought and won her case, a
defamation action against Sheena McCulloch at the Court of Session, justice has
been done. If you think back to my 2017 post when McAnulty quit the party, I
didn’t believe she was guilt.

Sheena McCulloch sowed the seeds of her own destruction, she
now faces a hefty bill of £40,000 plus interest, so she better line
part time jobs and draw a payment plan. By falsely claiming Ms McAnulty
referred to “Pakis” in the SNP, Sheena McCulloch dug a hole she couldn’t climb
out of.

£40,000 plus interest!

Lord Uist, who heard the case said Ms McCulloch’s allegation
was “outrageous” and "activated by malice and ill-will”. This is the modus
operandi of how the SNP treats other members. Uist added it was part of a
campaign to damage Ms McAnulty waged by a rival faction in the Lanarkshire SNP
linked to two MSPs. You might also remember on and off I said in politics, don’t
trust anyone, and watch your back, in fact there is a little episode being
played out in Pollok CLP at the moment which I am steering clear off.

Anyway, Julie McAnulty’s career was destroyed, perhaps she
might if she had gone on become an MSP or MP, I doubt she will want to rush
back towards Nicola’s Party after how she was treated; mainly I think because
of the infighting. Lord Uist gave Julie McAnulty back her good name saying he
had no doubts about her credibility or reliability.

Sheena McCulloch however didn’t get the same endorsement,
and she is a dog groomer!!!!!!

In totally rejecting
McCulloch’s evidence, he said:

“I found her to be an unforthcoming witness and formed a
generally poor impression of her.”

Post verdict Julie McAnulty welcomed the judgment, and said
it had "vindicated" her position and the money isn’t too bad either. When this story was leaked to the Daily Record,
which ran the front page story ‘Get the Pakis out of the party’, it was a
rather pivotal moment for the music teacher and church organist, which she
described as the worst day of her life. So, where was Nicola Sturgeon, the ‘defender’
of womankind?

Out of Dodge folks!

Finally, although there is nastiness in this case, it ended
with justice being done, it was also a wake up call for the SNP Cult to watch
their step, smearing in the party is ignored by SNP HQ; it is ignored by the
leadership as I found out from my personal experience. But once in awhile the
guilty get what is coming to them, sadly it takes time as Julie McAnulty. The
SNP is a party full of creepy evil nasty people at all levels, and everyone
should know that, know what they are voting for, and resolve to get them out of
public office.

One funny and mad little group is the WestboroBaptistChurch,
on one of the demonstrations; they had a sign for the place they lived, ‘Topeka, City of Bastards’, Topeka is in Kansas,
US. Maybe someone should do up a sign for the SNP which reflects them properly.
‘SNP, Party of Bastards’, it could stick marketed properly don’t you think?

Tolerance is a wonderful thing, but there comes a point when
tolerance is actually a weakness that has been exploited. The migrant crisis is
still with us, although you see the press do their best to knock it off the
front page, it is still with us. In France, tolerance of the French has
reached breaking point, hence you get the ‘yellow vest’ protests, they will
probably winded down for Xmas, but they won’t be going away. The ‘yellow vests’
have a focus, President Macron, they want rid of him. Macron is a former
Rothschild banker, a President for rich, not a President for all.

Europe is turning more
towards the right, in a rejection of the political elite who know the people
have finally clicked that these people don’t represent them, and never did. In
the UK,
behind the scenes, Theresa May’s advisors plot a second referendum which if it
occurred would effectively break democracy in this country. The idea of being
robbed of Brexit as the Irish have been is so untenable, that publicly Theresa
May discounts the idea.

Europe is in crisis, not
just from the point of view of society but also politically, we edge towards
civil war, we already have civil protests. We already have violence on the
streets as exhibited by the French Police. Tear gas, water cannon, baton
charges and flash grenades in use to suppress the people, but the people will
not be suppressed, they are angry.

One thing that is a spark of decency towards victims is that
Finland
is considering revoking citizenship for sex crime migrants. Especially those
migrants that have come to the West to indulge in the child rape gang culture.

Is this too little too late?

Well, it would be a welcome start, but this idea doesn’t go
far enough, kicking them out of the country after a long prison sentence is
what people should expect as a minimum. I would suggest that these people
should also lost all their assets and money, in effective stripped bare. When
they touch down in their former country of origin, they have the clothes on
their back and nothing else.

Finland
is no stranger to migrant rape gangs that preyed on young girls, it happens
right across Europe, so girls end up dead. The
cases of these migrant rape gangs have operated for years because of fear to
investigate by police, and cover ups by politicians. The fact that the Finnish parliament
is currently considering a bill that would remove citizenship and expel those
convicted of terrorism or treason is welcome but interior minister Kai
Mykkänen said such sanctions should be considered for those convicted of
serious sexual crimes as well.

Not only should we remove citizenship, we should also have
permanent exclusion orders, and severe penalties if such people attempt to come
back. Our justice must be swift, decisive and uncompromising. We should not
allow these people to use human rights as a vehicle to stop deportation and
these people should be dealt with by a special court, the one and final arbitrary
of their status.

Finland
saw an increase of asylum seekers entering the country during the 2015 migrant
crisis and through weakness of their refugee programmes; they have seen increased
sexual violence in places like Oulo.

Oulu Police Criminal Officer Milla Kynuunniemi said that
after the influx, “Increased sexual harassment could be seen in the streets.”

She added:

“Whenever people come from another culture, there will also
be clashes. Early on, sexual harassment was observed more than before. It’s no
good to deny that it was not visible.”

In early December, authorities in Oulu confirmed ten suspects had
been arrested in connection with grooming, rape, and sexual violence carried
out against three children under the age of 15. All of the men either arrived
during the migrant flow or via the country’s refugee quota scheme. This is the
direct result of the free for all started by Angela Merkel, these people were
let in with no background checks, they just didn’t start raping children in
this country, these people were always violent criminals who exploited the
system. They exploited the weakness of virtual signalling politicians, hell
bent of making a name for themselves.

These virtual signalling politicians should be in jail.

In Finland, matters have come to a head that has so disturbed
the country, that the country’s President Sauli Niinistö made a public
statement, condemning the “shocking inhumanity,” saying Finland
must “show strength” in punishing the rapists so that Finns “can continue
to have a just, safe society.”

Finally, when you have people who don’t respect your values,
culture or country, you end up with gangs of predators, these people are
without humanity, as the Finnish President Sauli Niinistö said, you must ‘show
strength’ but also you must use strength to defeat evil. You have heard of the ‘Arab
Spring’, you might see the Europe Spring explode onto the streets of Europe, to sweep away the political elite from power, but
more is needed than just that. In Europe, we
need ‘political war crimes trials’ so that those politicians responsible are
held to account for their actions.

Yesterday saw The Prime Minister Theresa May survive a vote
of no confidence by her own party, she won by a margin of 2-1. A victory is of course a victory, 200-117 but,
if you think back to the Margaret Thatcher era, you will know that winning
sometimes is only a staging post on leaving.

If you thought that the vote settled matters in the
Conservative Party, you would be wrong, one thing the Conservatives do well is
changing leaders, usually in a rather ruthless fashion behind the scenes. I
never expected Theresa May to lose the party vote, but having 117 MPs having no
confidence in her is probably more than many expected.

Theresa May has bought time for leadership, a year at least,
but Eurosceptic Conservatives MPs are going to keep up calls for her to quit. I
saw the election of Theresa May as leader as having the task to steer Brexit
through, after that task, I expected her to stand down and a new leader to come
forward.

Think of it as the ‘fresh start’ concept. Under normal
circumstances, you would expect matters to be settled for a while, however the
fact the Eurosceptic MPs are refused to drop their demand for her to quit means
the Prime Minister’s position is far from secure. Clearly, you have to wonder about
the no confidence vote in the House of Commons and whether Conservative Eurosceptic
MPs will use this as a vehicle to further attack her via abstaining in that
vote.

If the loss of that vote is huge, then it puts tremendous pressure
to bow to the notion that 2019 will be the year that the UK is plunged
into another General election. To lose that no confidence vote is damaging, but
the question is how far are the Eurosceptic MPs will to go in the pursuit of
their goals?

In
the run-up to the vote, one of Mrs May’s supporters said they hoped the result
would put “a stake through the heart” of the European Research Group,
presumably if you have watched a vampire movie, sometimes missing the target
just makes them even more annoyed. ERG chair Jacob Rees-Mogg said it had been a
“terrible result for the Prime Minister”, and he is right, on paper, it’s a good
win, politically, it’s a bad win.

Like me who mentioned the vote in the Thatcher era, this has
a feeling that having won the first round, her supporters must be considering
whether her time is up. 117 Conservative MPs certainly do. In terms of the
government working, the vote makes no difference as all Conservatives will
rally round in the interim. Jacob Rees-Mogg said Mrs May had survived only
after offering to stand down before a general election. This is what I thought
she would do, finish Brexit and then pass the torch on, even without all this chaos.

Post May, I would say that the EU deal will not stand the
test of time, and I do think it was intended that it ever would hence the new
leader mumbling.

Question is who?

Whoever is the next Conservative leader, the feeling I think
must be leaning towards someone who is a Brexiteer.

Jacob Rees-Mogg said the result has made Theresa May look
fatally weak, he added:

“The urgency of having a new leader is not reduced by today,
it’s increased.”

I think there is a problem for the Prime Minister, but I don’t
think that the pressure has increased as Jacob Rees-Mogg said, the result
bought Theresa May at least a year, Labour PM Harold Wilson famously said, ‘a
week is a long time in politics’, May has 52 weeks to play with. The other elephant
in the room is the insurmountable problems getting her deal and related
legislation through Parliament.

Personally, this is why I am in the hard Brexit camp, what
is needed is breathing space and time rather than attempting to ram something
through. In this case, no one was ever going to be happy, so a quick kick into
the long grass isn’t such a bad option.

In attempting to explain the result Mogg said:

“About half the parliamentary party is in the pay of the
Prime Minister one way or another. Out of the remaining 160 or 170, 117 voted
against her.Anyone who’s on the payroll and didn’t vote for her should have
resigned, and nobody’s resigned, so you’ve got to assume the payroll voted for
her. This is 177 out of 160, 170. This is a terrible result for the Prime
Minister.”

Mark Francois, vice chair of the ERG, said the result was
“devastating”, adding:

“She lost well over half of the backbenchers. That’s an
extremely difficult position for any Prime Minister to find themselves in. Most
of the pundits said we’d get somewhere between 60 and 80. We’ve blown that
clear out of the water. Over a third of her MPs have said they don’t have
confidence in her. That is a devastating verdict.”

Transport Secretary Chris Grayling said Mrs May had won
“very comfortably”.

He said:

“Of course this has been a difficult day for the Conservative Party.
But the reality is the Conservative Party, by a substantial margin tonight, has
said we want you to carry on and do the job.”

Quite so ma’am!

Finally, this all sounds like doom and gloom, in an ideal
world, there wouldn’t have been a no confidence vote in the party, but this
flags up how this EU deal is perceived, not just in the Conservative Party but
wider afield. People need to focus on the 29th March 2019; the Prime
Minister will want to use her extra time to show that the EU deal is working
and credible. If the deal flags up too many problems, she has the option to
ditch it. Brexit is still moving forward, albeit with casualties.

It seems that the village idiot, Ian Blackford, the SNP Westminster
leader has given Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn until the end of the day to
bring a motion of no confidence in Theresa May’s government. In politics,
one thing you should never do it wait on others. The ‘threat’ is a ‘nonsense’
of the highest order, but it also shows what the work ethic of the Nationalists
is. When I was in the SNP, the ‘leaders’ would ‘pass the parcel’ on do the work
in the hope that others would take it up in their stead.

Of course, we should recognise that a motion of no
confidence led by the SNP doesn’t have any kudos, no gravitas; all the SNP MPs
can do is ride on the coattails of others, to appear to have strength and
authority.

In Westminster,
the SNP are very much an outcast party, they don’t have friends; they don’t
have allies, and are held rightly in contempt.

So, what happens if Jeremy Corbyn doesn’t do as the ‘replacement’
jolly fat man asks? Other minor opposition parties will do it themselves. And
if they don’t have the Labour Party onboard, then they will lose any vote, and
there is no guarantee even if Labour does climb onboard that they will win
anyway.

SNP Westminster Ian Blackford is the ‘led’, the SNP leadership
at Holyrood basically tell the ‘sheep’ what to do, what to think and how to
vote and when. There is no gravitas in the SNP; they are so weak, that they
need on this issue of Brexit to seek the shelter of having joint press
conference with opposition parties.

The SNP want to have a vote of no confidence to pave the way
for a People’s Vote, but what they absolutely don’t want is a general election.
If the SNP go into a general election, they stand in theory to lose more MPs.

2015…… 56 MPs

2017…….35 MPs

2019, without any real narrative or substance, plenty SNP
MPs would be joining the ranks of the unemployed, or in their case the unemployable.

The odds of holding certain seats aren’t something anyone in
the SNP would want to risk their mortgage on.

The Labour Party position is that they will lodge a motion
to topple Mrs May’s government when it is certain to pass the Commons. To
translate, they will pop their head over the parapet if they think that a
number of Conservatives will abstain. This is called hedging your bets, and at
present even the strongest leave MPs in the Conservative ranks aren’t that
daft.

On this issue, anyone who breaks this effectively can kiss
their political career goodbye.

The SNP think that they can play the role of ‘puppet master’
with Nicola Sturgeon holding the strings, the sense of delusion in that is palpable.

Nicola Sturgeon cannot influence events at Westminster, she isn’t even an MP. One thing
which I do hope happens is that Theresa May by act or default runs down the
clock and there is a hard Brexit. It would be in the UK national interest to seek safe
harbour of the WTO rules rather than align ourselves to the EU. The negotiations
between the EU and the UK
show that the EU isn’t interested in partnership for the common good; but
rather they seek self advantage to promote their agenda which I suspect is to
frighten other member states from leaving.

"Time is running out and the PM’s tactic is clearly to
run down the clock. The opposition must not allow that to happen."

Finally; Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t grasp that time ran out on
23 June 2016, since then far from being effective, she has been pushed, nudged
and drag out of the door. The situation is at present, fingers clutching the
door frame like a kid not want to go to bed; she won’t be getting what she
wants. If she thinks getting shot down in flames is another glorious failure,
clearly she needs her head examined.

Having Ian Blackford lead the charge at Westminster is just laughable, it is like
watching the ‘little man’ urging the ‘big boys’ onto a fight.

Tonight after 4 weekends of rioting, the French President Emmanuel
Macron is said to be going to speak at 8 pm to the Nation. If you have missed
it, he has been speaking before but in the background which is why French
people who have been involved in the protests can be seen covered in blood. It
doesn’t and didn’t matter that it was male or female, young or old, even
children felt the full force of government to quell unrest.

Having lost the people, President Macron is to appeal to
French in wake of latest violent protests, citing that the troubles have been a
‘social and economic catastrophe’. He is also said to be ready to announce “immediate
and concrete measures” to respond to protesters’ grievances. The yellow vest
protest have spread across France,
Paris is a
particular hot spot for the protestors which have many disenfranchised white
people among their ranks. The fact is that President Macron as a member of the
political elite didn’t care for his people; the people have woken up as they
have done across the rest of Europe.

An old grievance in politics by people is that ‘nothing ever
changes’, well in the name this phrase has a lot of truth behind. Many people
are asking, when they vote are they voting for ‘political servants’ or are they
voting for ‘political masters’?

If it is the latter, then the democratic system is dead and
a sham!

President Macron is said to be meeting local and national
political leaders, unions and business leaders to hear their concerns but the
real crux of matter is, when he is meeting the ordinary French people? One
thing about the yellow vests, they have broken the mould in that they aren’t
aligning themselves to local and national political leaders, unions and
business leaders. These protests are by people that have been left behind,
treated as second class citizens in their own countries while they are forced
to stand back and watch others benefit ahead of them.

These protests are, are a nationwide anti-government
demonstrations, it would seem obvious what the people of France want,
they want Macron gone, they want a general election. And they want it now, they
want rid of the political elite. The same feeling has spread to other countries
in the EU block, no one wants talks; people want removal and then action.
Neither of these two options is something that the 40-year-old centrist French
President will consider.

To say that these protests are just about the rising cost of
living is a joke, this is the French attempt to ‘manage’ the protestors agenda,
haven’t the French had enough of being told what to think?

In Paris, police
had prevented a concentration of violence and destruction around the Champs
Élysées, as well as the yellow vest protesting, others have joined them,
anarchists and criminals. Anarchists think they have found a vehicle to bring
down the State, and criminals, they are just looting, taking advantage of the
moment.

Much of the destruction was caused by roving bands of what
is termed “casseurs”, urban guerrillas determined to loot and pillage, some of
whom were wearing gilets jaunes. This is a tactic to hide among the crowd when
the police arrive to restore order. Among the “yellow vest” protestors were also
black-clad and masked youths who, the authorities suggested, belonged to
ultra-right, ultra-left, or anarchist groups as I mentioned above. I am
surprised that the French identitarian movement hasn’t featured more
prominently in these protests or maybe the press is ‘managing’ the news?

One thing you can online is that French security forces,
using armoured vehicles and water cannon, were more mobile and reactive than in
previous weeks, this was justified by Paris authorities by saying that there
had been “much more damage” to contain.

Paris
deputy mayor Emmanuel Gregoire said:

“The sector concerned by the incidents was much larger. With
fewer barricades, the protests were more dispersed so many more places were
affected by the violence. There was much more damage yesterday than there was a
week ago.” Paris is set to remain a hotspot;
that said, gilets jaunes demonstrations in Marseille, Bordeaux,
Lyon, Nantes, Dijon
and Toulouse
show that the troubles aren’t localised. After all that France has suffered the people have
been pushed to breaking point by politicians.

Although the centrists in Europe
love to be called ‘progressives’; what they really are and have become are ‘anti
democratic’ politicians! The rise of the ‘anti democratic’ politicians was done
by hijacking political parties while preaching about social justice and
tolerance.

“To all the forces of order mobilised today, thank you for
the courage and exceptional professionalism you have shown.”

If you saw the bloodied faces of old men and women, you
might ask where did they find the courage to do that; and of course is this
what passes for exceptional professionalism?

The ministry of the interior said 136,000 people took part
in what the gilets jaunes had labelled “Act IV” of their campaign of action. Police
arrested 1,723 people, of whom 1,220 remained in custody overnight, 900 of them
in Paris alone.
This was more than four times as many as the previous week. Officials said 264
people were injured, including 39 police and gendarmes and several journalists.
When you cover a ‘war’ you run the risk of being hit in the crossfire from
either side, rubber bullets don’t ask questions when launched. Many of the
injuries however were caused by the security forces firing flash-ball-style
grenades at the crowds. A man who lost a hand after reportedly picking up
a crowd control grenade to throw it back, forgot the rule, never pick up live ordnance.

Commenting on the violence in France,
US
President Trump said:

“The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots
all over France”.

Jean-Yves Le Drian, the foreign and European affairs
minister is reportedly to have replied bluntly to the American president:

“We do not take domestic American politics into account and
we want that to be reciprocated. I say this to Donald Trump and the French
president says it too: leave our nation be.”

Finally, when you read the accounts of what is happening in France, you
mostly are directed to concentrate on the symptoms by the press and government,
but you should look are the causes. The rise of the ‘anti democratic’ politicians
is just a French affair, you find the same type of people who have worked
themselves into positions of power, the problems of France, are much the same
of other countries, the same type of people disenfranchised.

The woman who spoiled Christmas, yes, fresh from having the Brexit debate cancelled which would have been of interest to many in the UK, bitter Nicola Sturgeon has a message for the Scottish people, ‘gies yer money, more money’. It seems that Nicola Sturgeon is refusing to rule out higher tax bills in next week’s budget. And in what must be as funny as drinking cold sick, she is saying that Scots would get a “fair deal”.

How doesn’t anyone paying more tax and being financially screwed square the circle of that being a ‘fair deal? The reason for taxation is that the SNP are so incapable of growing Scotland’s economy that they fallback to the easy option, tax, tax and more tax.

When it comes to income tax, council tax and business rates, the SNP mantra seems to be let’s help ourselves to more. Finance Secretary Derek Mackay confirmed that middle-class Scotland would not get the same tax break as England in April. This revelation rather puts an end to the SNP lie that Scots are better off under SNP Government, things are getting worse and they have no solutions.

Wednesday’s draft tax and spending plans at Holyrood will give people an insight how much they are going to get stiffed for cash.

Why the higher tax burden now?

This is easy explained, the SNP want to show that they do things different, not better, just different, and when we get a worse service that costs more money; Nicola Sturgeon just blames England. This is the format that the SNP have always used, it never changes, seen as good for government, good for SNP Party Conferences.

High-earning Scots face paying £1100 more next year than their English counterparts, what a nice present in time for Christmas, a bit like when you get your gas and electric bill dropping on the carpet.

Your heart just sinks!

Acting Tory leader Jackson Carlaw predicted the Scottish Greens would demand higher taxes in return for supporting the 2019/20 budget. The Scottish Greens have been fostered on the electorate by the list system. They are like a stone in everyone’s shoe that people can’t get rid of. I support the removal of the list system in Holyrood, and the introduction of smaller Holyrood constituencies. Perhaps if this was to happen, then more people would get help, the list system doesn’t encourage MSPs to work for the people.

In an attempt to be meaningful, the SNP and Greens have discussed raising the 3% cap on council tax rises next year.

Conservative MSP Jackson Carlaw claimed a “brand new tax on householders across Scotland” was looming and called on Ms Sturgeon to rule out a “new tax on homes of hard-pressed ordinary Scots”. As to that claim, the SNP don’t tend to do much other than tinkering at the edges so maybe saying “brand new tax on householders 2 is a bit rash. Especially when you factor in this hasn’t been flagged up by the media and talked about in any meaningful way.

Anyway Carlaw added:

“The First Minister’s budget is now going up. She has the money to spend. The fact is no further tax rises are necessary. Isn’t the right choice this year to commit to no further increases on Scottish taxpayers?”

Although the details of the budget tend to be secret as the government and Nicola Sturgeon want a big day for PR purposes, the electorate are always the losers.

On thing which show how bad the SNP are government is summed up in the issue facing Capercaillie B&B and restaurant in Killin, this is a business that employs 16 people, whose business rates are set to rise from £333 to £1750 a month.

So, where is the fairness for this small business which it is alleged to be up for sale?

Where is the Scottish Government help?

Where is one of the ‘fabled’ SNP taskforces to save them?

The truth is that the SNP can’t grow Scotland in a business sense because they are clueless, it is worse than that; they are also inward looking when it comes to ideas. In Glasgow, there is a body called the Glasgow Action Group, which is made up of key figures in the city’s hospitality sector. They have issued a warning that rate hikes could cost 20,000 jobs countrywide. You would think that Nicola Sturgeon would have grasped that protecting jobs is equally as important as taxing them.

Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard also pitched in to raise the budget at FMQs, calling for more investment in schools, as he revealed there has been a 7% fall in specialist additional support needs teachers since 2014. With Nicola Sturgeon asking people to judge her on education it seems that some pupils can’t get a decent one as there has been 32% increase in pupils requiring help.

As we wait for the budget to be announced, what we will not be seen is the reform of the Scottish Government departments, we wouldn’t be seen better services, we wouldn’t be seeing genuine help for businesses, we wouldn’t be seeing a credible plan to grow Scotland’s manufacturing base.

We wouldn’t be seeing anything which indicates that Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP can do anything but to get another budget passed. Is it surprising that when it comes to the SNP Government that many people keep expressing the same thought…. ‘Is that it?’

Finally, I wonder if Nicola Sturgeon has any plans to surround herself in the run up to Christmas with kids when it is clear that she plans to fleece their parents for everything she can financially?

One thing about being a good leader is being a good orator,
a handy tool to have in getting your message out. Nigel Farage is a good
orator, he is highly entertaining to watch with countless people posting his
appearances at the EU Parliament and on news outlets. If there is one thing he
can be proud of is his efforts to secure an EU referendum and help to win it.
This was his crowning achievement in his career so far in politics.

Time moves on and people change just as parties do; now Nigel
Farage has decided to quit Ukip over its anti-Muslim 'fixation'. Farage spent
25 years as a member, he made the party sellable to the public, save it from
going under and achieve a fantastic result in the Euro elections.

The reason for quitting is that after 25 years saying he no
longer recognises party as run by Gerard Batten. Since Farage stepped down,
Ukip has had numerous changes of leadership, Diane James, left the post after
18 days. I think her decision to step away was a shame, she had the ability but
felt the role wasn’t for her once the spotlight turned on her.

With public attention comes public hate.

Her replacement, Paul Nuttall led the party and had a disastrous
2017 election, Ukip didn’t do well, because Ukip lack a narrative, and lost
momentum, when you stand for election, it helps to have policies in depth and a
ground campaign. Ukip has had its fair share of disappointment in the selection
of some candidates who turned out to be ‘warmers’.

In politics, you have to understand certain things, one is
playing the game, being a team player; not to put your foot in your mouth,
kissing babies is optional.

The next leader of Ukip, Henry Bolton, was forced out in a
members’ voter over offensive comments made by his girlfriend. Old guy and
young bird, young bird opens her mouth and makes a fool of herself. Henry
Bolton’s career was sunk, another thing in politics is watch who you hang about
with, especially the radioactive types.

Gerald Batten took over the reins of Ukip in February
without a leadership contest, the brief to stabilise the party and reset the
path of direction. In this context, he has made a few decisions which were unusual.
Normally in politics, high profile people who are liabilities or have baggage
are usually kept at arm’s left. Gerald Batten changed that thinking by
supporting Tommy Robinson.

Tommy Robinson is a high profile individual as a result of
his pervious history which includes spells in prison. The same people who
condemn Robinson are the same people who would welcome Nelson Mandela as a hero
with open arms, if Mandela was still alive. Prison can be a setback in politics
as several people have discovered or it could be an asset in the case of
Mandela.

Nigel Farage’s view on Robinson in politics is clear.

“The idea of Tommy Robinson being at the centre of the
Brexit debate is too awful to contemplate.”

That said, people in politics have to recognise that
Robinson has a following, the disenfranchised working class in the Ukip. Where
once these people could turn to a mainstream party for help; they have found
that their voices have been ignored!.

Robinson found a gap in the market.

Having stepped down from Ukip, Nigel Farage has still kept
busy; he has been on TV a lot especially loved by the American Fox News
Channel. It seems former leaders have a tendency to gravitate to TV and Radio studios.

What concerns Farage about Robinson is Batten’s decision to
throw Ukip’s support behind an anti-Brexit demonstration in London on Sunday organised by Robinson and
his associates, saying it was likely to “inspire violence and thuggish
behaviour”. The truth is when Robinson and his associates take to the streets,
the counter protestors turn up in masks to cause violence. Political parties
have to be careful and steer away from anything which detracts from their
stance on law and order. The appointment of Tommy Robinson as an adviser is
unusual to say the least, I have to say I was surprised by that move.

Brexit is at a crucial point, there is a lot of trouble,
other parties attacking the government to attempt to get their agenda moving
forward. The recent defeats of Theresa May’s Government in the Commons is an
example of this, Labour want a general election, the SNP want a second Scottish
referendum, and disgruntled Conservatives hate the Brexit ‘deal’.

Lots of smoke and heat but, little clarity at present!

Finally, when you step away from a political party if you
have been a leader, the best thing to do is let people do their own thing
without comment. Nigel Farage is still an MEP; he is also a TV pundit, once you
go, you go. Nigel Farage may at some point end up in another party, who knows,
as to Ukip, they seem to have a new direction, whether it pans out in terms of
voters is too early to tell. They could end up getting a boost if Brexit goes
sideways, and the public get angry.

Here is a laugh, which isn’t so funny, according to European
Court of Justice Advocate General Manuel Campos
Sanchez-Bordona, the UK
can unilaterally revoke its withdrawal from the EU.

This is his opinion, an opinion which can be ignored by the UK government
and will be.

The last laugh of course is that the UK will not be revoking
its withdrawal from the EU; we are too far down the road to turn back. The
Conservative Party has no interest in political suicide, which is the bottom
line here, the government said they would honour the result of the referendum
vote, and they will be judged on that commitment.

What this case brought by malcontents means is absolutely nothing
although what did European Court of Justice Advocate General Manuel Campos
Sanchez-Bordona mean by ‘the UK’, did he mean the House of Commons or did he
mean the government?

This intervention reminds me of how Irish people were
tricked out of their democracy by the EU.

A statement from the
ECJ said:

"In answer to the question from the Scottish court, the
Advocate General proposes that the Court of Justice should, in its future
judgment, declare that Article 50 TEU allows the unilateral revocation of the
notification of the intention to withdraw from the EU, until such time as the
Withdrawal Agreement is formally concluded, provided that the revocation has
been decided upon in accordance with the member state's constitutional
requirements, is formally notified to the European Council and does not involve
an abusive practice.”

One of the people who brought the case is SNP MEP Alyn
Smith, who has never accepted that he is going to be unemployed in the very
near future, ripped out of his cosy EU bubble.

He said:

"This is a huge win for us, and a huge step forward
from the highest court in the business, and confirms what we have been hoping
for: that the UK
can indeed change its mind on Brexit and revoke Article 50,
unilaterally.

Actually, it isn’t a huge win, and it isn’t a win, because
the UK Government is still going ahead with Brexit.

Smith added:

“This is big news. Now, while Westminster
is debating legal advice, just how much public money has the UK government
blown *trying to stop* this being known? The Advocate General Opinion is
not the final judgment, but the practice of the ECJ is that the judges tend to
follow the Opinion, so this is a major landmark. We now have a roadmap out of
the Brexit shambles, a bright light has switched on above an 'Exit' sign and
the false choice being offered to MPs at Westminster - that it is Mrs May's
disastrous deal or chaos - is shown for what it is, an abuse of Parliament.
There are other options, and we can stop the clock.”

What a pity for him that the UK public wouldn’t accept ‘stopping
the clock’, and the Conservatives know the only timetable is to get out of the
doomed EU project. What this court case highlights is how politicians don’t
represent us.

Yesterday in my post on the ‘yellow vests’, this is a
feeling that has gained real traction across Europe.
There is a change in the mentality of people towards politicians, from public
servants they are now being seen as public enemies. The treatment that Macron
of France gets in public is a sure sign that the trust has broken with the
political class.

What will emerge is new parties of the right, who will
exclude the type of people who brought Europe
to its knees. You could see political revolution in Europe
and new parties emerging which put the people first and safeguard the national
interest.

Conservative former attorney general Dominic Grieve said of
the development:

"It's clearly significant. Of course it doesn't
necessarily have to be translated into a judgment, but the opinion of the
advocate general is often very influential in forming the opinion of the court
and it reinforces something I have to say I personally always thought was
probably the case.”

To reassure you that nothing has happened of significance by
the remain side, Advocate General for Scotland Lord Keen QC,
representing the UK Government, said the case is a "hypothetical validity
challenge" and those behind it seek "political ammunition to be used
in and to pressure the UK Parliament".

He isn’t worried and neither should you be if you fought for
Brexit.

Legal representatives for the UK Government believe
the case is inadmissible as it deals with a hypothetical situation; the Government's
policy is not to revoke Article 50. You could also chuck in that the EU is
forbidden to get involved in country’s internal domestic politics, doesn't this fall squarely into that category?

Finally, Labour MEP Catherine Stihler is quitting being
an MEP to get a job elsewhere; this to me is the real acid test because it is
an acceptance of reality something which her fellow Scottish MEPs haven’t
grasped yet. The party is over, the good times are over; it is time to pack up
their offices and use up their allowances before the trek home. Of course, one
would expect that the EU would do anything to keep the British ‘cash cow’
pumping money into the EU budget any judgement by the EJC will be seen as
tainted, they have no business sticking their nose into UK domestic politics.

Regardless what they say, the public will take no interest
in this bogus case, the UK
is taking back its sovereignty on 29 March 2019.

While we sit twiddling our thumbs waiting for the Brexit
vote in the House of Commons, I thought I would cast an eye over to the
happenings in France.
Quite a few years ago, I said that Europe was
heading towards a possible ‘civil war’. I said that the migrant problem would
rebound on the political elite and that slowly and steadily the trust between
politicians and the people would break. The political elite of Europe have betrayed their people in favour of the EU,
crime escalated, violence has escalated and all that was needed was a ‘trigger’.

We aren’t at the shooting stage just yet, but we are
beginning to enter the violence and rioting on the streets.

French President Emmanuel Macron is considering
imposing a state of emergency after France experiences worst civil unrest
since 1968. Here is a blast from the past to get you started.

Of course, rioting in France does flare up from time to
time, but generally it is localised over an incident. We are much more aware of
seeing French protests such as farmers complaining about CAP, the Common Agricultural
Policy.

Back in 2015, I was blogging on how the military would be
needed on the streets of Europe.

The protests by the ‘yellow jackets/ vests’ far from dying
down have spread across Europe, in France,
there have been have been violent protests in Paris which saw the Arc de Triomphe
vandalised and hundreds of arrests. The protestors are many and the issues they
are unhappy about are also many, these protests have many heads, it isn’t a
single issue.

French President Emmanuel Macron has been polling badly, the
public have lost confidence in him as their leader, He has been repeatedly over
time been met with jeers and calls for his resignation. From the attack in Nice
to present day where he toured the damage along the Champs-Élysée after his
return from G20 in Buenos Aires,
he doesn’t inspire.

It must have been uncomfortable for Macron to read graffiti
that read “Macron resign” and “Yellow Vests will triumph” after the capital
experienced its third straight weekend of civil unrest. People are sick of how
they are treated and used as cash cows to be milked; this was the spark that
set the ball rolling in France.

Government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux has now confirmed a
state of emergency was on the table, saying:

“It is out of the question that each weekend becomes a
meeting or ritual for violence.”

What is laughable is that the French Government are saying
that the president was ready for dialogue with the Yellow Vest protesters,
which is meaningless, as he will not back down from his green agenda.

He said:

“We won’t change course. It’s the right direction. We are
certain of that.”

What is there to talk about?

The person must to benefit from the civil unrest is the populist
right-wing leader of the National Rally Marine Le Pen. It is also said that
these protests might garner support for far-leftist Jean-Luc Mélenchon, the
leader of the Unsubmissive France party. These two people have called for
Parliament to be dissolved and fresh elections to be held, plunging France into
turmoil. In previous elections, Marine Le Pen didn’t get enough support to
bridge the gap. This gap is narrowing, people see a need for political change,
change that only can happen via the ballot box for what is needed to restore Europe.

The alternative is the bullet and the bomb, civil war which
isn’t desirable, is a general election on the cards, well, Macron has public
support hovering at around 25 per cent. This is enough to predict he
isn’t going anywhere near a ballot box. If you consider he has done only one
and a half years into his five-year mandate, he will want to ride out the
storm. This assumes that he keeps the considerable support in the French
legislative assembly. Leadership is a lonely place when those around you fail
to offer continued support, especially if their necks are on the line.

According to interior ministry figures, 3,000 people took
part in the rioting in Paris, police made 412 arrests and used over 10,000 tear
gas canisters and stun grenades in an attempt to defuse protesters. 133 people
were injured, including 23 police officers. Aside from the damage inflicted on
the Arc, rioters also attacked the neighbourhood’s luxury homes, high-end
boutiques, and set cars on fire. Officials estimated that 75,000 people took
part in action across the country, one driver died on Sunday in Arles, in the south of France at a
roadblock. If you ever watched the movie Ronin starring Robert De Nero, you
will recognise Arles,
it is a historical town with plenty of history.

In panic, Macron has labelled all protesters as violent
however, French politicians and the government have recently been keen to draw
a distinction between Yellow Jacket protesters and extremists on the left and
right who have infiltrated the protests. The ‘yellow vests’ have a high amount
of support from the French public. French protests always get used as
a vehicle by the extremists on the left and right, this is nothing new. They
want protests to be violent as it suits their agenda to bring down the
government; the problem is Macron and his group.

One thing the Yellow Jackets said which rings true is that French
President Emmanuel Macron is a “president of the rich” and does not care about
the concerns of everyday citizens. Macron is a clone of what has been described
as Europe’s childless leaders.

They don’t care about the future because they have no family
which will be a part of it.

Finally, if you think back to 1968, the occupations, riots,
and strikes were so severe French Politicians feared civil war and revolution. The
violence maybe the worst in 50 years but it also could escalate further. Is the
tax hikes the last straw for the French public, how far will Macron go before
he breaks society in France?
Will the military soon be walking the streets of France? How will the French public
react to that, there are lots of questions which spring from what is happening
in France but answers seem to be few and far between in how solve the problems
under Macron.

The Prime Minister Theresa May has said that the so called ‘People's
Vote’ is 'not an option'. In politics, people like to think up whizz bang names
and slogans to catch the people’s imagination. The term, the ‘People's Vote’ is
one such term which doesn’t represent the people but the political elite of
this country who want to scupper Brexit and remain in the EU.

The usual suspects are backing this like Tony Blair, who
likes to push his nose and side up to European politicians that he is watching
out for their interests. In fact his intervention is his running political
advert for employment in the EU. He may not be a force in UK politics,
but as an ex PM, he likes to think he is a game changer.

Tony Blair like SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon is changing
nothing.

If you take people like Alex Salmond, when in power, he
effectively couldn’t be challenged, out of power and out of favour, he has
limited appeal except among a few people on the fringes. In technical terms, he
is slightly above just being an ordinary punter.

As people like SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon try to force their
way into the Brexit debate, the door has swung back and closed on her, hence
she is at present doubling down on failed rhetoric. The latest is to accuse
Theresa May of being ‘feart’, this is laughable, feart of what, Nicola
Sturgeon. Sturegon isn’t going to be allowed a national UK platform on
Brexit. Being someone who likes a laugh, maybe Nicola Sturgeon and Patrick
Harvie could apply to be the ‘ugly sisters’ in this panto.

And as Theresa May retorted back to Sturgeon, you’re not
even an MP, so jog on!

The Prime Minister is doing a bit of touring selling her
deal up and down the country; this is due to the numbers problem, that problem
is getting enough votes in December when the vote in the Commons is held. There
was never a chance that Theresa May would buy into the concept of being
pushed back against calls for a second Brexit referendum. The road was
clearly defined by the people on the 23rd June 2016, all over the UK.

Legally once the clock started on exit, there was no going
back, no backdoor deal, no taking the letter back, and not ‘Irish’ situation.
The Irish were robbed of their democracy when they vote against the EU; they
were in effective told to keep voting till they accept the EU and its ilk.

The UK
has a different opinion, we’re off, thanks but no thanks, find another cash cow
to milk.

Speaking to senior MPs, the Prime Minister refused to be
drawn on what would happen if the Commons votes down the Withdrawal
Agreement in the crunch vote on December 11. You could say that she is
unwilling to speculate or provide ammo to the opposition that she is even
considering defeat in the House of Commons. That said, she might lose, if the
numbers against her stay the way they presently are. A defeat however wouldn’t
be the end of the world, just the end of that EU proposed deal, and if hard
Brexit comes then so be it.

Another thing about the people’s vote which is worth noting
is that that "people's vote" could not be held before March 29 2019,
there is no time to get legislation through, and all the planning and issues to
do with funding aren’t in place either. It is clearly that politically and
practically, the opposition has run out of time, run out of ideas and run out
of support.

The BBC has recently confirmed that Theresa May had agreed
to take part in a televised Brexit debate on Sunday December 9 against Jeremy
Corbyn. You can expect the SNP to complain to the BBC about the exclusion of
Nicola Sturgeon. If you are lucky, the idiots will be back down at Pacific Quay
in Glasgow
mounting a protest. The debate is a formality really, the outcome is decided,
what that can achieve is more a public information event to let people hear
more about the details, what, when and how Brexit works.

If I was to bet, I would say that the UK Government is
heading for defeat in the vote on December 11, this isn’t the end of the world,
a clean break with the EU is needed, I can’t say I am happy with the deal but I
am open to be convinced. There is no way that after leaving we can accept EU
jurisdiction in the UK,
when we leave, we regain full sovereignty.

Ted Heath, the then PM who signed us up to the EU in 1973,
knew where the EU was heading in a briefing document, if the public knew then I
wonder how the vote to join would have gone. The EU is a failed project with an
agenda which runs counter to national sovereignty, for those reasons, it will
fail in the long term.

One interesting issue is that Labour shadow chancellor John
McDonnell has suggested a second referendum could be "inevitable"
unless Mrs May goes back to the country in a general election. If you remember
an earlier post, I said that the Labour goal was to push for a general
election. Elections are tricky things, especially if polarised on one issue
which another snap election surely would be, Brexit would be the issue, with a
few carrots on other issues thrown in to make the campaign seem ‘exciting’.

Oh, and if you think the SNP would do well in another snap
election then think again, they would bleed seats at the ballot box.

Finally, do tune to the BBC debate on December 11, you will
get a decent snap shot of the pitch by Theresa May, and without the hectoring
babble of Nicola Sturgeon trying to get a sideways mention of a second Scottish
independence referendum. Of course, the SNP see this as an opportunity for
them, but truth be told, they have their eye up to the wrong end of the
telescope as usual. Brexit is the most important UK event in decades
politically, it ends a chapter, there was some good, some bad from membership,
but in the end, the Europeans made such a mess of the project that exit was the
best possible thing for the people of the UK.

This was one campaign which I am glad to have done for the
ordinary people of the UK.

When a woman gets a knock back, it can be quite sore on
their ego, you go from being on top of the world to staring in the mirror
looking at flaws. Scotland’s
unpopular SNP leader is a ‘selfie queen’. Her pensioner husband, Peter Murrell
famously commented that a ‘selfie’ stick would make an ideal present for her.

In recent days, there has been talk of a Brexit debate,
naturally ‘selfie’ Sturgeon wants in on the action, for numerous reasons.
Chiefly the reasons seem to be, to boost her flagging leadership, to try and
halt the terminal decline of her government, to try desperately to reconnect
with Scots.

This is all linked to an attempt to shore up seats for both
Holyrood and Westminster
that the SNP currently hold. 2017 was a wake up call for the SNP, from 56 MPs
they crashed backwards down to 35 MPs. Some other seats were held by a slim
majority. In areas of Glasgow;
just under 100 votes separate the current SNP MP from the ‘dole queue’ and
universal credit, some of them live in fear of an early general election.

One of the Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has
dropped a bomb on ‘selfie’ Sturgeon that if there is a Brexit TV debate is
'only for biggest parties', which means Sturgeon with 35 MPs wouldn’t be
invited to the party. This will no doubt anger Sturgeon being brutally
rebuffed, but we should remember, she isn’t an MP, so why should she be on the
stage.

The answer is simple, the SNP at Westminister are a pack of
fools, and if you look at Ian Blackford, well he looks like he has just had too
many lunches, the wee fat guy who just waddles and babbles about the place.

Certainly not a man of action!

Cabinet Office minister David Lidington has insisted that Nicola
Sturgeon will not be part of a TV debate with Theresa May. The reason
is that Sturgeon is not a ‘big picture’ politician, she and her ‘low road’
politics of grievance has no right to attempt to barge into this debate. One
thing that Cabinet Office minister David Lidington did say however is that it
is up to Scottish broadcasters whether or not First Minister Nicola Sturgeon is
included in any TV debate in Scotland.

With so many TV channels and the internet, there is plenty
of options for Scots to just cut Nicola Sturgeon off, rather than hearing an
evening of boring rhetoric as Sturgeon tries to turn a Brexit debate in a case
for a second referendum on Scottish independence.

Enough is enough!

David Lidington said:

"This is a debate between the leaders of the two
biggest parties at Westminster
which is where the decision on whether to approve the deal or not will take
place. The Prime Minister obviously will speak up in favour of the deal she has
negotiated, I'm assuming that Mr Corbyn, if he wants to do this, will argue for
the rejection of the deal. I think if Scottish broadcasters decide whether they
want to have a separate debate in Scotland and perhaps invite the
First Minister and the Secretary of State to take part there, but I think
that's a matter for the broadcasters to discuss amongst themselves."

He added:

“This is a binary choice: Do you accept the deal that is on
the table or do you reject the deal that is on the table and I think that there
is a clarity about having two champions, one for each side of that debate.”

Clearly Cabinet Office minister David Lidington doesn’t
consider Nicola Sturgeon a champion or even a ranked contender, which has a
clarity about this, he has said what many Scots think about the Sturgeon ‘performance’,
it just into up to snuff. Despite numerous makeovers, the sands of time have
been cruel to Nicola Sturgeon, short, bad tempered, gobby, ‘pot belly’, and
dyeing her hair and attempt to dress far too young for a grey haired women over
48. Despite her hefty salary, Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t have charisma, she doesn’t
have style, mentally she is adrift; always it seems on the wrong side of the
debate.

Watching Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t make for good TV.

MPs will vote on December 11 on Mrs May's Withdrawal
Agreement, at present, the chances of a win for her look slim as even members
of the Conservatives aren’t happy with the deal. The SNP are voting against the
deal, orders from Sturgeon or her chief lackeys, the SNP MPs all vote as a
block because they are sheep. On the evening of the debate, Nicola Sturgeon can
sit in with her pensioner husband and watch as the real politicians thrash
Brexit on TV.

The SNP had a chance early on to be part of Global Britain,
and by default, project them as leaders of ‘Global Scotland’, but their
politics are tried to a doomed EU project, there is no vision in the party.
Having a provincial minded leader such as Sturgeon has damaged policy
development in the party. The record of the Sturgeon government is appalling
stuff, identity politics coupled with ineptness, short term policy to get over
short term problems.

There comes a point when Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP will
have to accept that she is mutton dressed as mutton, you could say even, she is
mental mutton. The attempts to dress young, the layering of too much make up,
the need to stick her nose in where it isn’t wanted has ‘something of the night’
about it.

When Nicola Sturgeon described herself as ‘chief mammy’, my thoughts were, an attempt at humour or does she have a screw loose? I keep
remembering the words from David Laws MP, when he wrote in his diary that
Nicola Sturgeon was a ghastly woman, cold and unattractive, it is something you can't forget.

Finally, expect plenty of outrage by the SNP about Nicola
Sturgeon being knocked back, although some people will quietly laugh, the truth
is no one wants a desperate needy woman lecturing them when they made the right
choice and she didn’t.

Vacancy for National Champion of Scotland to appear on Scotgov website soon?